The woman died from serious head injuries when she was hit by debris falling into the street in the Midlands city of Wolverhampton, emergency services said.
In Cambridgeshire, eastern England, 11 people were taken to hospital with minor injuries when a double-decker bus was blown onto its side.
Doris brought winds of up to 94 miles per hour in Wales, heavy snow forced school closures in Scotland and power was cut to thousands of homes in Ireland.
Scores of trains and flights were cancelled and delayed as Doris battered London with gale force winds of up to 60mph and was officially declared a “weather bomb”.
Parts of the capital were placed on amber alert by Met Office forecasters and the London Fire Brigade was called to a number of weather-related incidents yesterday morning with a tree falling on a house in Chiswick. There were no reports of serious injury.
Train operators Chiltern, Gatwick Express, Southern, Southeastern, South West Trains and Thameslink all reported varying degrees of disruption with London Midland and the East Coast Main Line also affected. Services from St Pancras suffered delays and cancellations yesterday morning after damage to overhead cables in the St Albans area. It was a second successive day of travel chaos for many following staff walkouts on Wednesday on Southern Railway and parts of the Tube.
Dozens of flights in and out of Heathrow were subject to cancellations and delays, with the airport flagging 77 flights as cancelled on its website.
Gatwick was also hit by delays while Aer Lingus cancelled almost all services to the UK from Ireland.
A Heathrow spokesman said: “Strong winds and poor weather across the UK have resulted in approximately a 10% reduction to Heathrow’s flight schedule. With Heathrow operating at more than 99% capacity, there are no gaps in the schedule that can be used for delayed flights and as a result some passengers may experience disruption to their journeys today.”
The Met Office officially declared the storm a “weather bomb”, or “explosive cyclogenesis” — a meteorological phenomenon when pressure falls rapidly.
Today was set to be calm and sunny.
